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  1. Cuzi
    The pieces the Cubs have on the level of Bichette to trade, they need them as much as the Blue Jays. Meanwhile the Cubs dont need a SS. I fail to see the logical connection from both sides. Now if we were talking about Vlad? I might get interested. Vlad is someone I could see the Blue Jays trading because they would likely get way more in return than his worth because of his name and what he did years ago. Hes trending down for years while his salary is trending up.
  2. Cuzi
    That's fine. I'm not telling you how to run your forum. Its simply odd to me to complain about discussion on a forum. That is what keeps your site running for 20 years. So why would you want to redirect discussion to a sub forum that has 85 replies, 16 topics and a third don't have a single reply? Seems like a weird thing to be popping off about.
  3. Cuzi
    Nobody uses them because it's inconvenient. What's wrong with having one generalized MLB forum that is bias towards Cubs discussion? Is there a reason to have more than maybe 3 sub forums? 1 for each of MLB, MiLB, and game day?
  4. Cuzi
    Would a forum discussing Cubs transactions and rumors be the appropriate place to discuss a transaction made by the Phillies? Having so many sub forums is just dumb, imo. You end up diluting the user base because who the hell wants to back in and out of sub forums to find out the latest news in each individual area? They'll just go somewhere else where its 1 click away.
  5. Cuzi
    If Juan Soto was the only thing this team needed to get them to game one, I might agree. Cubs won 83 games last season and since the end of the WS, ~7 WAR has been deleted from the roster. If you are making a play for Juan Soto on a 1 year deal, you better damn well be willing to go full blown 2022 Rangers.
  6. Cuzi
    There's really not much else to say if a 2 WAR player isn't that much worse than a 4 WAR player.
  7. Cuzi
    We just have very different definitions of the word aggressive. Trading for Soto and then pulling back on the rest of the signings would be passive aggressive.
  8. Cuzi
    Because while trading for Soto would be aggressive, the rest of the return likely wouldn't be. I also dont value Hoskins as much as he seems to be valued around here. He's certainly not bad, but going after him would not be "aggressive" in my opinion. He was a 2 WAR player and we would be getting him in the same vein as Bellinger last year, in that you cross your fingers on a 1 year deal that he rebuilds enough value to trade at the deadline. You haven't even named a pitcher, either. Probably because you realize the same thing I do in that it's unlikely that if they traded for Soto, the pitcher will be at the top of the FA list. Soto's $33M is going to eat a very large chunk out of what they add in payroll. How much would you say the Cubs are going to add this offseason? Now subtract Soto and whatever Hoskins will get. What pitcher are you looking at? Is it an "aggressive" name or a Jameson Taillon?
  9. Cuzi
    I'm already preparing for disappointment because they've been talking about being aggressive for a couple offseasons now and we've gotten Swanson and fodder.
  10. Cuzi
    I would hope they would do more than trade for Soto, trade Morel for a controllable pitcher, sign Hoskins, and then throw a couple dollars at the bullpen. That would be extremely underwhelming to me, even with Soto because it's only for 1 year, with how scorched earth they have been teasing. That would be another we are going for it but siding on "intelligent."
  11. Cuzi
    When I said next year I was meaning 2025, not 2024. I've already moved on from 2023 because in terms of baseball we are talking about 2024 in the present currently. They did't long term commit to Hoerner. They just added 1 year to what they already had.
  12. Cuzi
    Are we convinced that Shaw is going to play 3B? The Cubs fast tracked Shaw to AA because he was murdering the lower levels. I dont see him going through AA and AAA at the same pace. It's possible, but I cant imagine him getting a call up til mid season next year and by that time our SS that currently plays 2B will have 1.5 years left under contract and could easily be traded.
  13. Cuzi
    Lol - you made a comment like it was. Its ok to not make comments.
  14. Cuzi
    When you go from talking about his success in 2023 and then in the next sentence talking about featuring a sinker over a 4 seamer it reads like saying he switched pitches. And really its not the first time hes ever used a 4 seamer he averages 5% with it, he threw it 10% last year. His highest usage with it previously was 6% in his rookie year.
  15. Cuzi
    Jordan Hicks has always featured a sinker. He throws it 66% in his career and threw it 64% last year.
  16. Cuzi
    Neither one is under contract for next year so they dont need to find someone to take them off our hands.
  17. Cuzi
    I would have probably already given the job to Mike Shildt if I were the Padres. Why the Cardinals fired Shildt is still a mystery to me. The guy took Mike Matheny's .500 win team and made them one of the best defensive teams in baseball and had a .594 winning percentage with them and did nothing but manage 90 win teams before they fired him. Now 2 years later they have Marmol and are last in the division.
  18. Cuzi
    Take the year off. Hes already getting paid to be a manager without having to do the job.
  19. Cuzi
    A team also reserves the right to trade Glasnow at the deadline and slap him with a QO if they dont. There's a trade off for the extra salary vs doing it at the deadline, because you can't give a player a QO that was traded mid year.
  20. Cuzi
    Horton would probably still be near the top of that range, but I wouldn't question if someone put Canario ahead of him. There is something to be said about being successful in the upper tiers of the minors/MLB. It was just a little over a year ago the talk was how Christian Hernandez was a future ARod. That's not looking like such a hot prediction right now. Caleb Kilian was dominating AA and was going to be the best return the Cubs got out of the Rizzo, Bryant, and Baez sell off. Then he forgot how to throw strikes in MLB and AAA.
  21. Cuzi
    He should join the team when he is ready. The Cubs arent hurting for corner OF right now. Caissie hasnt even seen AAA yet and he was striking out 31% of the time in AA.
  22. Cuzi
    Sure, it hurts it. But you did see the pitching market at the deadline right? Mid tier/borderline bums, like Jack Flaherty, were netting multiple top 20 prospects. Guys on Stromans level were getting 50FV prospects. When healthy, Glasnow is one of the best in the game, key word healthy. The Rays will have no shortage of suitors willing to trade for him and the Cubs top 10 is full of mid tier prospects. We talk about the Cubs top 10 like its sacred ground, but you could probably scramble 2-15 in any order you want.
  23. Cuzi
    Glasnow is still going to cost a decent chunk to acquire even at $25M. He was worth 4 WAR in just 130 innings. Problem with him is that he's so often hurt he is basically a reliever over the span of his career, so unless you are getting something else in the package I hope the Cubs stay away.
  24. Cuzi
    You shouldnt worry about having spots for prospects, but you dont block with guys like Candelario either. He is wildly inconsistent throughout his career. He's had two 3 WAR seasons in the last 3 years so he'll probably get a 3-4 year offer from someone and if that is the case then good for him. The Cubs shouldnt be interested in anything more than a 1 year deal. We've been down the road of blocking guys with mediocre-to-bad players this last year and they all got released mid season and we'll be paying for it in 2024. Hell, we saw with our own eyes how little Candelario can add because he wasn't horsefeathers on the Cubs in the second half. He had a good first week then got injured and didn't hit the rest of the way.
  25. Cuzi
    That's not to say he hasn't had any contact with Carter Hawkins. Just kidding. Kind of weird to specifically say Jed Hoyer and not simply the Cubs, though.
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